Doing Natural Linguistics the evolutionary way: Concepts and methods

Nikolaus Ritt; Andreas Baumann

Doing Natural Linguistics the evolutionary way: Concepts and methods

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Abstract

The chapter describes the basic elements of this view and shows how compatible it is with the tenets underlying naturalist approaches to the study of language. It also shows how conceptualizations of languages as evolutionary systems have motivated the productive adoption in language studies of analytic methods that were first developed for the study of other evolutionary systems, such as, particularly, biological life. The chapter concludes with an outlook sketching the potential of a research programme that integrates Naturalist and Evolutionary approaches to the study of language.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cambridge Handbook of Natural Linguistics
Editors	Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Patricia J. Donegan, Wolfgang U. Dressler
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Publication status	Submitted - 16 Nov 2023

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

602026 Cognitive linguistics
602057 Historical linguistics
106012 Evolutionary research
605004 Cultural studies

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